This book teaches you how to sequence smoothly from one obstacle to the next to reach your dog's highest potential for speed & accuracy. The book: helps you to develop a consistent set of cues for communicating with your dog on the agility course. As a result your dog will understand your directives in an instant even at the highest of speeds & the greatest of distances. It also provides detailed lesson plans for Beginner Intermediate I & Intermediate II agility training classes. ...

This book illustrates how to isolate & train many of the higher-level skills necessary to successfully compete at the most advanced levels of competition. It describes how to strengthen & maintain existing skills for attaining fast & reliable performances in the agility ring & provides in-depth answers to commonly asked questions in a helpful Problem Solving appendix. ...

Branches of Baker & Spice are places of pilgrimage for bread lovers. They are the favoured supplier to top restaurants such as the River Cafe Le Gavroche & Zafferano with everything handmade on the premises using traditional techniques & the finest ingredients. Exceptional Breads" passes on the secrets of their fabulous breads with recipes for full-flavoured rustic breads from wild yeast starters classic baguettes ryes French fougasse & Italian foccacia. Although the results are always impressive & the techniques are innovative the recipes are beautifully straightforward. All have been tested in a domestic kitchen & in addition to the clear step-by-step techniques there are beautiful photographs of the finished breads to whet the appetite & inspire the would-be baker." ...

A follow-up to Abrams' successful Treehouse Living" " Exceptional Treehouses"

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Two & a half millennia ago the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space beside a trillion-year-old dying sun from a different universe. It was a perfect black-body sphere & it did nothing. Then it disappeared. Now it is back. Banks is a phenomenon.. .wildly successful fearlessly creative William Gibson Thrilling affecting & comic.. .probably the finest science fiction he has written to date New Scientist Banks has rewritten the libretto for the whole space-opera genre The Times ...

A second chance to finish what they started... When Keri Daniels's boss finds out she used to be bestselling author Joe Kowalski's girlfriend she gives Keri a choice: get an interview or get a new job. Joe's never forgotten the girl who broke his heart so he's intrigued to hear Keri's back in town-and looking for him. He suggests a wicked plan-for every day she survives with his family on their annual camping trip Keri can ask one question. Who knew a little blackmail two weeks in close quarters a whole lot of family & some sizzling romantic interludes could make Keri reconsider the old dream of Keri & Joe together forever? ...

Maybe a phrase a line a hint somewhere would reveal a reason any reason for the elderly couple's disappearance. They'd saved everything.. .there was even a copy of the 'certificate of living existence' that nadir of bureaucratic imbecility.. . What was the 'protocol' to use a word dear to government offices? Did one simply write on a sheet of paper something like: 'I the undersigned Salvo Montalbano hereby declare myself to be in existence' sign it & turn it in to the appointed clerk? A young Don Juan is found murdered in front of his apartment building early one morning & an elderly couple is reported missing after an excursion to the ancient site of Tindari -- two seemingly unrelated cases for Inspector Montalbano to solve amid the daily complications of life at Vigata police headquarters. But when Montalbano discovers that the couple & the murdered young man lived in the same building his investigation stumbles onto Sicily's brutal ' New Mafia' which leads him down a path more evil & more far-reaching than any he has been down before. Praise for Andrea Camilleri: 'A joy to read' The Times ' This savagely funny police procedural proves that sardonic laughter is a sound that translates ever so smoothly into English' New York Times ...

On the shocking discovery of a passengers body on the Great Western Railway excursion train Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck & his assistant Sergeant Victor Leeming are dispatched to the scene. Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon
- a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a public executioner Colbeck realises that this must be intrinsically linked to the killers choice of weapon. However the further he delves into the case the more mysterious it becomes. & when a second man is strangled by a noose on a train Colbeck knows that he must act quickly. Can he catch the murderer before more lives are lost? Set in Victorian England & rich in historical detail The Excursion Train" will hold you captivated from the beginning to the end of its journey."
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We all know how strong our emotions can be
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Excuse my French! arose out of a culture clash between a Frenchman & an English woman. Life together in a bi-lingual relationship for Rachel & Jean-Christophe created many miscomprehensions amusing mistranslations & often sheer bewilderment. This book offers a way out of the conversational confusion & comprises of 700 expressions in English & in French divided into 13 chapters which cover all the essential topics in life
- including food & drink money business work & sex. Excuse my French! teaches the essential idioms & metaphors of the other language in a fresh light-hearted way that wont feel like youre back in a classroom. Packed with quizzes glossaries & interesting detail on the historical contexts for how phrases were coined & illustrated with line drawings it will improve language skills & promote the Entente Cordiale between tourists students & business associates as well as encourage relationships to blossom between les Gaulois et les Rosbifs all over the world!
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